A UAV-Aided Cluster Head Election Framework and Applying Such to Security-Driven Cluster Head Election Schemes: A Survey

Table 3

Security comparison of security-driven CH election schemes.

Category of security-driven CH election schemes		Unpredictability	Non-manipulability	Agreement property	Immunity against message loss	Privacy
Pre-distributed key schemes	F-LEACH	Low	High	Low	Low	Low
	SecLEACH	Low	High	Low	Low	Low
Random number schemes	Commitment-based scheme	Low	Low	Medium	Low	Low
	Seed-based scheme	Low	Low	Medium	Low	Low
	Merkle’s puzzle based scheme	Medium	High	High	Medium	Low
	Trust-based scheme	Low	High	High	High	Low
Key chain schemes	Dong’s scheme	Low	Low	Medium	Medium	Low
	Han’s scheme	Low	Low	Low	Medium	Low
Cryptographic schemes	Symmetric cryptography scheme	Low	High	Low	Low	Low
	Discrete logarithm scheme	High	High	Low	Low	High